best potential for career success. Manning encouraged the development of study abroad, experiential learning, and service learning at Stevenson. In 2004, Manning established the institution's second campus in Owings Mills, Maryland, a move critical to transitioning the former commuter college into a residential university. Manning has focused on growing the 100-plus acre Owings Mills campus by adding additional residences, a student community center, a dining and student center, the Brown School of Business and Leadership, the Caves Sports and Wellness Center, a Gymnasium, and Mustang Stadium to host the university's field sports. In 2009, he announced that Stevenson would be adding football to its roster of NCAA Division III sports programs. In November 2011, Manning oversaw the purchase of the Shire Plc property in Owings Mills, Maryland, which increased the Owings Mills campus by 29 acres of land and 170,000 square feet of laboratory, classroom, and office space. In addition to facilities, Manning has focused on adding undergraduate academic programs that enhance the university's career-focused mission as well as expanding Stevenson's School of Graduate and Professional Studies, which offers onsite and online bachelor's and master's degrees in areas such as nursing, healthcare management, cyber forensics, forensic studies, forensic science, criminal justice, business and technology management, and paralegal studies. In March 2009, Manning approved a university restructuring plan for the formal creation of the university's six schools led by deans: the Brown School of Business and leadership; the School of Design; the School of Education; the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; the School of the Sciences; and the School of Graduate and Professional Studies. Manning's presidency has played a pivotal role in building Stevenson University's reputation as a national leader in career education. U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges ranking named Stevenson a “Best Value” college in 2005. Stevenson was named one of the nation's “Up-and-Coming Schools” in the 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges. Awards and public service Manning was recognized as a Maryland Innovator of the Year by The Daily Record in September 2003 for the creation of Stevenson's Career Architecture approach to undergraduate education. In 2007, he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award in the education category in Maryland. In 2010, Manning contributed the whitepaper “Doing More with Less: Transforming a Program through Technology” to President to President: Views on Technology in Higher Education, Volume II published by SunGard Higher Education